Swallbat - Thanks for the info. From what I can tell, there are actually two Hobbyking OSDs--one for $13 and another for $8. The $13 one only has one video connector and is meant to be wired in parallel with your receiver. The $8 one has both an in and out video jack and is meant to be wired in series with your receiver. To me this would imply that the parallel one at least generates its own independent video signal, which could possibly keep the display going even when the main video signal drops out. Is this right?

Or if that one wouldn't serve my purpose, would the series one do it, since it actually does something to the main signal from the receiver? I don't know enough about this stuff, but it would be nice if one of them would. Otherwise I don't know what I'll do besides maybe buy another screen.

Spectrum is usually DSM2 which fails horribly at hopping around a VTx. Stock
2.4ghz radios just generally don't have the power to reach more than 1 km. Not
to say that some people that live where the noise floor is low and use low
power VTx's can't get some range, but for most users a stock 2.4ghz will fail at
less than 1km. Find me one stock 2.4ghz FPVer who flies around happily at
more than 2km....never gonna find one...

Spectrum is usually DSM2 which fails horribly at hopping around a VTx. Stock
2.4ghz radios just generally don't have the power to reach more than 1 km. Not
to say that some people that live where the noise floor is low and use low
power VTx's can't get some range, but for most users a stock 2.4ghz will fail at
less than 1km. Find me one stock 2.4ghz FPVer who flies around happily at
more than 2km....never gonna find one...

Blues

But that is just the fact of 2.4GHz systems, having nothing to do with FPV really. And Spek isn't any worse off than anyone else. Some systems hop around, some systems spam the whole band, and some use wide-band channels. As long as your video system isn't on 2.4GHz, all of these methods should suffer equally in the presence of your video transmitter. IBCrazy just pointed out a few posts back that the harmonics DON'T interfere, and I'm not sure why people keep saying that.

There's a video on my channel which shows a Spek system competing with a "deliberate" wide-band jammer. What's interesting is this - with the jammer turned on, you can still see the Spek signal, but the Futaba signal fades into the background (it is equally jammed everywhere it tries to go). I've seen this on a spectrum analysis - so don't tell me Spek is worse in the presence of a jammer - it's not.

So after further testing, I discovered the black screen problem I was having isn't actual black screening. My Coby DVD player seems to have this glitch where it turns off the backlight on the screen whenever the camera suddenly points at a bright object (though it only does this when I'm going through the video transmitter, not when the camera is directly plugged into the screen). The signal strength is just fine, and you can actually still see the video faintly on the screen, but every time the camera switches from looking at a dark place to a bright place the screen turns off the backlight, which comes on again in about three seconds and it flashes NTSC on the display. You can make it do the exact same thing by pressing the "Display" button on the DVD player. I'm thinking this might just be a bad display to use and it's not even the same as the typical black screen problem.

Anyone know if there might be a way to stop this, or do I just need to get a different screen?

In your video is like you have a very small view angle. Is this the maximum field of you that you can see? I have seen other video but the image was much bigger? Why is this? Lets say in this video:

Like this i could fly for miles I think ...

Well what I meant was would you want to fly far away with a system that is glitching like mine was when I wasn't far away. Our systems don't do letterboxing or other aspect ratio stuff to adapt to the image size. So, if you hook up a widescreen camera to your normal screen goggles, it will simply squish the image horizontally - and while you are viewing a wider angle, it isn't physically any larger to your eyes - so you've stuffed more information into the same space, and that may not actually be better.

Typically when you see recorded flights in widescreen, it was recorded by a second camera. For example, you fly with a camera like mine, and you have a GoPro HD sitting next to it, recording onto the memory card. That way you get a nice, high quality recording with no video transmission artifacts.